Questions tagged [weather-satellites]
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GOES image: parallel trains of clouds. What to make of them?
Here is a GOES visible image from today, 2019-12-01 about local noon, around Nova Scotia. Note the parallel trains or streaks of clouds, running approximately northwest to southeast.
A few hours ...
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Weather Forecasts
Are weather forecasts such as on weather.com or other apps continuously updated for each location and updated by an operator or is it just a computer automatically updating the forecast?
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Are these plane trails seen from satellite
Here are photos from West of Normandy, at 7-9am after sunrise on the 14th of may, from the visible satellite. It's a bit strange that they are visible from space, they are 2-3 miles wide? Are they jet ...
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Where are old Himawari weather satellite images available to the public? Is the 18-Dec-2018 Bearing Sea fireball still there?
In Scott Manley's new video 173 Kiloton Explosion Over Bering Sea Was Asteroid Breaking Up a bit after 01:30 he says
The good news is that in these days of near-...
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Where can I find archived night microphysics images from EUMETSAT? I
I want night microphysics RGB composite from EUMETSAT. I'm looking for archived images. I tried finding them on EUMETSAT's data center page. Data from different channels of SEVIRI is available but ...
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Projecting rectangular stereography centred on 42°N, 10°E
I am reposting from GIS Stack Exchange as here might also be someone who might help:
I have a precipitation GRIB2 file obtained at EUMETSAT H-SAF I am able to decode it to ascii but the software I am ...
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Why do tethered aerostats have lower persistence than stratospheric balloons?
We have been thinking of using Aerostats/Balloons for an environmental monitoring project in our university. We have been considering 2 options: Tethered Aerostats (which fly upto 1 km) and ...
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Quantifying long term melt record on glacier surface
I intend to create a long term melt record on a glacier surface. What are parameters required to efficiently calculate the same using satellite, weather station observations & reanalysis datasets (...
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Where can I get good raw meteorological data for Middle East?
I live in the Middle East and I am really fond of understanding meteorology and using raw data make my own weather predictions. However, a limitation I encounter here is that most raw meteorological ...
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Looking for global cloud cover animations or videos
I am looking for a video of global cloud cover. Something like an animated version of this image:
(Originally presented at http://naturalearth.springercarto.com/ne3_data/8192/clouds/africa_clouds_8k....
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Global Land and Sea Surface Temperature Data
We are a spin-off from TU Munich and currently working on equipping a
CubeSat with a thermal imager.
The imager should be able to acquire thermal/ir images with resolution of about 200m/px. In the ...
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Looking for fun and illuminating weather visualizations
I'm looking for illuminating and fun weather data visualizations like e.g. EarthWindMap.
More specifically, I was hoping to find wind vectors overlayed onto a prognostic chart to visualize how the ...
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Is archived lightning data from the GOES-16 beta test available?
I was only able to find real-time data. Or do I have to wait until the Geostationary Lightning Mapper is greenlit for production in 2018?
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doubt about the 'white spaces' in the maps from satellite
I have a doubt about the 'white spaces' in the maps from satellite. For example, for the atlantic areas I have plotted AOD and appear many areas where sistematically do not have any data (white spaces)...
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Convert satellite image data (GOES 15) into solar irradiance values?
I have GOES 15 satellite image data (GVAR_IMG) for a project that I am working on. The files are end in .BAND_01, .BAND_02, etc.
I use the Panoply tool to view these files, but am looking for an ...
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What causes the counter-intuitive presence of CO2 in the atmosphere during spring and summer months?
Recently, I stumbled upon this NASA map of the Earth from the OCO-2, a satellite that measures CO2 density in the atmosphere. http://www.climatecentral.org/news/nasa-tools-co2-19681 Specifically, I'm ...
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Alternative WMS servers for GOES-East satellite imagery
I'm having some difficulty finding a WMS (web mapping server) for North America GOES-East satellite imagery that matches my needs (visible and IR4, timely, with no alteration of grey-scale pixel ...
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Great Lakes - cookie cutter clouds
On 2014-07-10, in the afternoon, the GOES East satellite image in the visible showed a mass of cloud in central North America. However, in the middle, the Great Lakes stood out in a most extraordinary ...
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Does anyone know of a comprehensive listing of geostationary weather satellites?
Periods of operation at longitude--current as well as historical. The historical list on Wikipedia is incomplete. Is there a single site with status of operational satellites (real-time) or do you ...
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Why were no interferometers launched on weather satellites between the '69-'72 IRIS-D and the 2002-onward AIRS?
As early as the late 1960s / early 1970s, Nimbus-3 carried Iris-B and Nimbus-4 carried Iris-D, both infrared spectroradiometers with a moderate spectral resolution. Subsequently, I believe it was not ...
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Why is there no High-Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS) on Metop-C?
The weather satellites Metop-A and Metop-B carry copies of the High-Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS), an instrument with a heritage back to 1975. Considering that Metop-C is part of the ...
